The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-31
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Local aad state Notes.

It is said that T. w. Burrows. superintendent
of the l. e St. l.. division OF the Bee line, has
been offered a better position the system of
roads managed by p. 3. Thomas
The L., b. & W. is negotiating to again estab-
fish line of through coaches between Columbus
and St Paul, over the roads that run
them last year during the Summer
A new deal seems to he regarding the ST.
Louis Alton e Terre Haute company's securi-
ties. The preferred stock is being exchanged
for frst-mortgaee bonds. thus making the COM
mon stock preferred stock.
Negotiations are pending which will probably
result in the South Shore. one of the Fries fast
freight lines, again doing its entire business
the Decline The New York Central has with
drawn its opposition TO such arrangement.
There thirteen of the Woodruff sleeping
coaches undergoing a general overh aulng at the
shops of the L.. ID. d S. road Work them is
being pushed day and night, the company is
anxious to get the coaches again in service and
place others in the shop.
E. +. Murphy, late chief clerk in the general
freight Office Of the l.. B. & W. has been ap-
pointed agent of the Midland line at this point
N. j. McConney, who has been acting agent for
some time past is TO have full charge of the
local agency of the l., B. e w.
Notwithstanding the friction over the paying
OF commissions to ticket agents. in the month
ending to-day the sales of tickets at the local
outside offices have been the largest ever known
In Nav Some of the Offices several thou
sand dollars ahead of the sales May, 1856.
1t is believed by persons in position know
what Is going on that tho Porter syndicate will
yet accept the terms which President Mackey
and his friends wish to sell their interests in the
Evansville & Terre Haute and the Evansville 81
indianapolis roads. as it is the cheapest in
which a line to the Ohio river can be secured.
The St Louis & Central Illinois company is to
take mm ediate steps looking a reorganization
and increase of its capital stock, with view of
extending the road Alton, where connection
will be made with the indianapolis &c St Louis
road, which it can work its St. Louis bust
ness.
On Thursday last the purchasers of the To-
ledo. Cincinnati Il ST Louis road paid into the
court $l56,000 ordered by Judge Gresham
N. &. Butler clerk of the court. has disbursed
$4,000 of the amount a large cent. of it GO
ing TO pay labor claims dating back to the year
1888.
Somebody is buying stock of the Peoria, De-
catur Il Evansville road freely. Last Thursday
and Friday S. 600 shares changed hands
The stock is increasing-in value for the reason
that negotiations are pending by which the road
will get through service to indianapolis the
J.. ID. 81 s., and to Chicago over OF the roads
out of Peoria.
The monthly statement of the Railroad Ga
zette shows tnat In April there were ninety rail-
road accidents in this country. in which forty
one persons killed and los in ured. Nine
of the accidents reported occurred on Indiana
roads four of them being on indianapolis lines
This ls an unusually large per cent for Indiana
but only in there a loss of life.
1t is stated that the T., d. % s. people have
not fully decided what shall be the name of the
road after il is reorcanized. The management
Is deSfrOuS of having the title end with the word
Pacific" that name seeming to giving a road
more Importance. Should the line be extended
to St. Joseph it would be longer than some of
the roads which have used the word Pacific" in
their titles.
r. Stockhouse, general freight and passenger
agent of the Chicago & Peoria road. in the
city yesterday n conference with the L.. B. d
". officials regarding closer traffic arrange
ments. Heretofore the L.. b. q w. has worked
its North western business largely with the G B.
d @. The Chicago & PEORIA division of the
Chicago 81 Rock Island is now seeking TO control
q larger per cent. than 1t has got in the past
1t IS still omen question whether the Mid
land line will get into Indianapolis over the
Lake Erie & Western The T.. b. & W. people,
over whose road the Midland line comes in here
making a sharp fight TO prevent the line
working into the city the l.. T.. g. w The
latter road. however claims that the Midland
line was established for the special benefit OF the
Lake Erie & Western; that il the first road
over which the line operated and. therefore, it
should have say in the matter. The situation
Is really becoming quite interesting
A general reorganization of the freight de-
partment of the Bee-line goes into effect TO
row. Albert S. White, assistant general freight
agent, removes his headquarters to St Louis. and
has the indianapolis & ST. Louis division under
his special charge including Indianapolis. j. @
Van Wrinkle is TO be known division freight
agent, his territory extending from Indianapolis
to Martel O., inclusive. j. E. Ewing's title is
to be assistant general freight agent. and his
territory will extend from Cincinnati to Carroll
ten, q. A t. Hough'S title Is to be assistant
general freight agent, and his territory will
all outside OF the assignments above
noted.
In speaking of the report of the Pennsylvania
lines for April the Philadelphia Record says: cit
has been generally known that the earnings of
the road for April had increased over the
spending month of last year by about 5000 600
but no one mot the wicked bears dared to
intimate that expenses could possibly be in
creased in the same proportion; yet tho figures
below show that the two amounts nearly bal
anced each other. It is all the more surprising
to find the proportion of expenses so materially
enlarged. account of the interstate-commerce
bill being in action during the month, thereby
head freight that had been Heretofore reducing
the revenue of the road"
The suggestion that the Lake Erie & Western
would likely withdraw from the Union Depot
is exciting some comment It
will be remembered that the old Junction road
the c., II. & l., did once. and found it
expensive business, as 1t shut off its freight from
the Union tracks and connecting switches. and
made the delivery Of freight so expensive that
1T seriously impaired business. After two
months struggle it gladly came back into the
fold. The trouble SAYS an old rairoader, is that
the roads running into Indianapolis do not APP
preciate the privileges they enjoy, there being
no railroad point in this country where the bene-
fits from IL union of railroad interests is equaled,
and. with the compilation of the new depot, the
are to be still greater.
How to get more service out of freight cars is
the problem which troubles railway manage.
mentS at the present Tune. III is SAID that the
railroads of this country 80 900 freight cars
valued at $400, 600 600. The number of freight
cars has increased AT the rate of 10000 per year
for ten years, but the service gotten from them
has not increased. In $40 two fast-freght
lines with 1000 cars made an average mileage of
seventy seven miles per per day. Three
years later with 5000 the mileage fell TO
seventy-two miles per day; six years later with
10 900 cars the mileage was but forty-four miles
per day, and last year with 10000 cars the mile
age fell to forty miles per day. On six leading
railroads with les, 900 the average mileage
is but twenty four miles per per day. which
indicates that the in motion but two
hours out OF twenty-four
General aud Miscellaneous
The St. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba road
has been granted the right of way through the
Blackfeet Indian reservation, in Montana for
III miles.
In the PHILADELPHIA & Reading conductors,